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i want to go back to education. one of the great challenges is education. our numbers have fallen behind so many countries right now. we have a class that has been protecting the status quo now despite the talk of education reform and protecting the status quo for decades now. we have got to go in and radically reform education into the poorest parts of the country. the special interest groups who had this iron-like grip on public education, they have got to loosen that grip and we need to start taking radical experiments and doing what they are doing in new orleans. it's giving poor parents the same opportunity that rich parents have. that's all we are asking for. give the poorest parents the same opportunities that the richest parents have and let them choose. let them decide what school is best for their child. it seems like such a simple approach yet my god, the special interests go crazy when you do that. >> it's not like there not great ideas. we talk to them every week and there pockets of people doing incredible things. there is a school called the
i want to go back to education. one of the great challenges is education. our numbers have fallen behind so many countries right now. we have a class that has been protecting the status quo now despite the talk of education reform and protecting the status quo for decades now. we have got to go in and radically reform education into the poorest parts of the country. the special interest groups who had this iron-like grip on public education, they have got to loosen that grip and we need to...
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aid to higher education. i think there's something in the american consciousness or american soul even that recognizes government has a role but wants it to be as inclusive as possible. and when you get into reforming 20% of the economy and without that kind of universal benefit i think that's where the presidents run into trouble. >> like the whole tone of this conversation is that it's ultimately a failure. we don't know that. you would say it is a failure. >> i agree. conservatives should not be over confident. >> i would not be over confident because if more people are getting insurance, if subsidies do work, if more people get the medicaid. the federal exchange learns lessons and works out its wrinkles we can be sitting here six months from now, oh, my gosh, we overreact during that debate. i don't know that's how it will play out. >> you've seen it happen so many times before. overreach. one party overreaches. >> politically things turn. >> i'm skeptical in this case. >> also the social issue. people wa
aid to higher education. i think there's something in the american consciousness or american soul even that recognizes government has a role but wants it to be as inclusive as possible. and when you get into reforming 20% of the economy and without that kind of universal benefit i think that's where the presidents run into trouble. >> like the whole tone of this conversation is that it's ultimately a failure. we don't know that. you would say it is a failure. >> i agree....
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it has to be fast and affordable and education is a huge part. people understanding why. >> that's a challenge for business. margins are important. >> restaurants are tough execution. you have to have the right real estate and the team and the margin. at the same time you have to focus on the trends. ask me 25 years ago, they are a company worth $60 billion, there is starbucks all over the place. chipotle is different locations. they strike a cord with people and the cord that needs to be struck is around healthier choices. we talk about health care and this is a big focus. how we in costs. the best way is to get people to make healthier choices that. is a key part. it's not going to happen overnight, but in 10 to 15 years, there is a trend developing that said we have to make healthier choices in a way that is fun and convenient and affordable and that's what it is all about. >> you and two friends have this idea. how did you find him. how did you connect with him. >> i met steve and he called us three years ago and asked us to franchise. he too
it has to be fast and affordable and education is a huge part. people understanding why. >> that's a challenge for business. margins are important. >> restaurants are tough execution. you have to have the right real estate and the team and the margin. at the same time you have to focus on the trends. ask me 25 years ago, they are a company worth $60 billion, there is starbucks all over the place. chipotle is different locations. they strike a cord with people and the cord that needs...
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this is like education, this is like health care. it's not that we don't spend enough money because we spend more money per pupil and per patient than any other country on the planet and we spend a lot of money on transportation. why aren't we getting the transportation we deserve from our government? >> well, first of all, joe, stimulus failed for two reasons. one, the percentage of money on stimulus and steve can give you the exact percentage it was very low. barbara boxer and jim inhofe tried to triple the money spent on stimulus and it was beaten back. secondly it was a two year program. you can't repair the infrastructure by patching it up for a year or two. we need a ten year infrastructure revilization program. if we did it and did i want at the right levels we could create four to five million well paying american jobs that couldn't be outsourced. we could bring back american manufacturing. there's some things that could be done by an infrastructure investment program but it can't to be done -- >> we just throw money away. th
this is like education, this is like health care. it's not that we don't spend enough money because we spend more money per pupil and per patient than any other country on the planet and we spend a lot of money on transportation. why aren't we getting the transportation we deserve from our government? >> well, first of all, joe, stimulus failed for two reasons. one, the percentage of money on stimulus and steve can give you the exact percentage it was very low. barbara boxer and jim...
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over nine years i worked to educate the members of the california legislature. i went to south africa when they lifted the ban on the anc to welcome home all of those who had been in exile and finally we created the event that brought him to los angeles where we filled the coliseum and on to letting people who had been working and students who had been so involved in trying to get him released from prison. finally they got to see him and it was a glorious moment. >> tom brokaw that's one part of this, his history. charlaine said talk about the part where this country wasn't that supportive of him. she talked about possibly some even more sinister aspects of it. >> i was in south africa. it was important in keeping the pressure on. i remember the first time i went back when i could use an american bank credit card and i gave it to one of the merchants and they passed it around and they haven't seen it in four or five years. you talk to the big energy companies at that time and it was economic pressure that made f.w. de klerk and others to think about we can't con
over nine years i worked to educate the members of the california legislature. i went to south africa when they lifted the ban on the anc to welcome home all of those who had been in exile and finally we created the event that brought him to los angeles where we filled the coliseum and on to letting people who had been working and students who had been so involved in trying to get him released from prison. finally they got to see him and it was a glorious moment. >> tom brokaw that's one...